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The Straits Times It is Yeow Kai Chais first collection in 15 years.ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG https://str.sg/JH6N They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month for the first 3 months. including the ST New...

After being diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness, Barrett Browning was forced to live in isolation. Her response offers great insights into how to cope, writes her biographer

by Fiona Sampson Review by Brian Morton Virginia Woolf said: “Fate has not been kind to Mrs Browning as a writer. Nobody reads her, nobody discusses her, nobody troubles to put her in her place.” One might argue that Mrs Woolf wasn’t very kind to her, either; when she turned her mind to Elizabeth Barrett Browning it was to write a biography of her dog Flush, and one wonders what, exactly, she means by “her place”. But the better part of a century later, her basic point is beyo...

A much-needed reassessment: Fiona Sampson restores Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her proper place Credit: Stock Montage/Getty When Wordsworth died in 1850 and the post of Poet Laureate became vacant, one name that was widely canvassed in the press as his replacement was that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In the end, the honour went to Tennyson; it would take until 2009 for the first woman, Carol Ann Duffy, to fill the post. That Barrett Browning was in the running says much about her status in...

From Alasdair Gray's Poor Things to Marguerite Duras's The Lover, and, naturally, Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary

by Fiona Sampson (Profile £20, 336 pp)   During her lifetime, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was our most popular woman poet yet, today, even the most passionate poetry lover would struggle to quote more than a few lines of hers. If youre familiar with her story, its probably because of The Barretts Of Wimpole Street.  This 1930 play, which has been filmed three times, is an irresistible slice of melodrama about the romance between Elizabeth and the dashing poet Robert Browning — a love affai...

The Romantic Reputation of John Keats On his death two centuries ago, Keats and his work looked sure to be forgotten. Why is he now so well loved? Two hundred years ago, on 23 February 1821, John Keats died. He had suffered from tuberculosis since early 1820 and, after months of distress and pain, finally succumbed to the disease at the age of just 25. Keats was a failed medical student, who had swapped operations for odes after realising his poetic talent. He had been writing for six y...

CHARLESTOWN – The worsening epidemic of Influenza had reached inside the Shannock home of 35-year-old Robert Browning. He and his wife Sarah (Card) had fallen ill along with their two children; 8-year-old Robert and eight-month-old Evelyn. Outside their door, a blizzard raged and all they could do was lay helplessly bedridden, listening to the violent winds. The storm had begun early that morning, Feb. 5, 1920. Heavy snow dumped down from the sky as 30-mile-per-hour gusts whipped the flake...

Casa Fantini: Europes Best Lakeshore Location to Book for 2021 January 27, 2021 For the ultimate Italian escape that ticks all the boxes this summer, book a few nights at concept hotel, Casa Fantini, on the shores of beautiful Lake Orta. Just one hour from Milan, this contemporary and elegant five-star hotel is the perfect location from which to explore the area by boat, foot, bicycle or by car. Often overlooked for its bigger sisters Como and Maggiore, the lake itself has inspi...

We all like to speculate about the “big one,” whether it’s earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or pandemics. For example, a CNN story begins, “The chances of a global pandemic are growing — and we are all dangerously under prepared.” It reports conclusions by a panel of international health expe… More Headlines